Custom settings for black autoformat

I wanted to use black autoformatting for some specific purposes only, i.e. disabling most of its functionality and just let it format some specific parts (e.g, whitespace managing and import sorting).

Is there any way to adapt the settings of the black instance being used? I could not find a .toml file anywhere?

btw: black was a really bad choice of name by the authors. try searching for issues with black and so much unrelated stuff pops up.

[ccordoba12]

Auto-sorting of imports needs that functionality added to the Python language server first (as I said in the other issues you posted earlier).

We’ll try to implement it in the future.

[rhkarls]

I’m pretty sure the Spyder plugin respects pyproject.toml and the black configuration in there. See https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage_and_configuration/the_basics.html#configuration-format

You can then place your pyproject.toml in the same folder as the file you want to format (see https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage_and_configuration/the_basics.html#where-black-looks-for-the-file), and run black. I just tested with adjusting line-length in the toml file, and that works.

Note that black in Spyder is not behaving entirely as it should https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/17143

PS: I feel the pain re searching issues with common works, if its of help I recently discovered adding in:title to the filter (for example, is:issue is:open in:title black )